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Dunne (EDWARD FITZSIMONS an American)

EDWARD FITZSIMONS, an American public official; born in Waterville, Conn., in 1853. He was educated in the High School of Peoria, Ill., and for 3 years studied at Trinity College, Dublin. He studied law at the Union College of Law, graduating in 1887. In the same year he was admitted to the bar. From 1892 to 1905 he was County, III. In the latter year he was mayor of Chicago, serving until 1907, when he again engaged in the pracjudge of the Circuit Court of Cook tice of law. From 1913 to 1917 he was governor of Illinois. He was a prom figure in Democratic politics. In 1906-1907 he was president of the League of American Mnicipalities, and in 1919 he was a member of the commission from Irish societies of the United States to present claims of Ireland for selfdetermination at the Peace Conference in Paris.